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Job summary

Main area
Project Management
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Fixed term: 24 months (Or secondment opportunity)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
  • Home or remote working
  • Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week (Cross site working)
Job ref
390-NOVA-SO-0004
Employer
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Southend
Town
Westcliff-On-Sea
Salary
£53,755 Per annum and pro rata as appropriate
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust logo

EPR Senior Project Manager

Band 8a

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest trusts in the country, serving a population of 1.2 million people comprising acute hospital sites at Broomfield in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend.

 

We are a well-led, high-performing and innovative organisation determined to provide the best health care services for our local population and working in the best interests of the people we serve.

 

Job overview

EPUT and MSEFT are embarking on a UK first of type EPR procurement for a single EPR that spans Acute, Mental Health and Community health services. We have already undertaken extensive market engagement have submitted our full business case.

There is extensive interest nationally in this first of type opportunity and we are excited to offer this role to an experienced Senior Project Manager to support us in delivering to the programme.

 

 

 

Main duties of the job

As the Senior Project Manager for EPR you will work alongside a team of PMO professionals. The role requires extensive end to end project management experience and good working knowledge of project and programme Governance and assurance. And will require you to work alongside senior leader to effectively drive and manage their workstreams. You must have the ability to thrive in an environment that is constantly evolving and respond positively to the challenges.

Working for our organisation

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) provides services to the residents of Southend, Basildon, and Chelmsford. It was formed in April 2020 by the merger of Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust, and Basildon & Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex, and Suffolk.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To support the PMO Lead, Deputy Programme Director, Programme Director and Workstream Leads to ensure the purpose of the PMO is widely understood and how the role supports the successful delivery of improvement and transformation work programmes. 
  • Produce clear programme documentation, and data for use in reports, local briefings, workshops and meetings for both internal and external to the organisation some of which may be to large audiences or members of the public.
  • Support the overall Change Management agenda as required including supporting    events deemed within the scope of this role.
  • Drive improvement delivery and business intelligence team to ensure reporting is supported by metrics and data to evidence levels of progress.
  • Work with clinical, operational and improvement delivery teams to ensure projects are set up with clear objectives, outcomes, plans and risk management to ensure strong monitoring and assurance arrangements can be put in place.
  • To advise and update project and programme KPIs and sources of data.
  • Input into the changing needs of projects that may impact on project delivery to support decision making and resource allocation
  • Develop and maintain the project management reporting tools and to support successful programme and project delivery.
  • Provide pro-active management of risk and issue registers to ensure these are managed and resolved in a timely fashion. Identifying and monitoring critical dependencies between projects and recommending appropriate action

This role is offered as a fixed term role, as part of the Nova programme, which is a time-limited programme to deliver a unified electronic patient record. This post is funded specifically for the purposes of the programme, and there is no recurrent funding for this programme. Please note that upon completion of the programme, there will be no further funding for this post, and there is no guarantee of alternative employment within the organisation.

 

Person specification

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience delivering projects in the NHS
  • Project management experience including the development and management of project documentation.
  • Previous experience working with Oracle Health

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate the ability to handle technical, highly complex, sensitive or contentious information and present this to a variety of audiences where significant barriers to acceptance may exist
  • Ability to manipulate data essential for reporting into Programme Boards including recommendations on the most appropriate course of action

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Gemma Lawrence
Job title
NOVA deputy programme director
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01702 435 555
Additional information

Please email to set up a call if you would like more information on the role.

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